V Quidore

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Audio Project Samples

Archiving the Archives Part I — For the final research project of my creative nonfiction class, Raising the Dead, I created a meta archive of my experiences investigating the history of WDCR, weaving together important milestones in the station's history going back to the 1940's, the reflections on documentation process, and important moments during the past four years of the radio station while I was a student from September 2020 to June 2024. The following clip is the first ten minutes of the hour-long documentary and features collage-style live readings of decades-old documents, from internal notes to the script of the station's inaugaral WFRD-FM broadcast. Special thanks to everyone who made this project possible, including the Spring 2024-Winter 2025 leadership team of Dartmotuh College Radio and the research librarians at Rauner Special Collections Library. If you would like to listen to the full documentary, please email me at veronica.quidore[at]gmail.com.

“The Dispatcher's DM” — I produced this audio documentary for an assignment in my creative archival nonfiction class, Raising the Dead, in which the objective was to recreate the moments surrounding a document, such as a photograph, a letter, or a social media post. I attempted to recreate the moments surrounding the DM below. The DM was sent to Chris Garrett, the old station manager of WFRD, who worked with Dartmouth College Radio until the FM station was sold by the College's administration in 2021. We still have the screenshot that he printed out hanging in the station. This project uses audio from the Within The Trenches Media 9-1-1 Audio Library compiled by Gary Allen, who wrote and published Dispatch Magazine Online. Content Warning: this audio documentary contains audio footage of emergency calls and depictions of psychological distress that might be

A printed out screenshot of a DM in darkmode against a white wall that reads, “Hey I just wanted to tell you that you and 99 Rock is what gets me home in the mornings after sometimes very long 12 hour shifts. I don't advertise what I do for a living because growing up in small towns and working as a dispatcher for a police department could be tricky sometimes, and it keeps people from constantly asking about stuff going on in the upper valley. I love what I do and being a dispatcher for 27 towns fire adn EMS, plus 8 towns for police makes for a shift of crazy and unexpected. BUT, once in awhile you have that one shift, that one call that breaks your heart, and makes your soul hurt. Monday morning was one of those shiftsadn thankfully my last one for a week because I took a staycation. I knew I just needed to make it home to just shut my mind down for a few hours and I would be fine. I got into my car and thankfully always have your station ready to go, and it was perfect timing because you were doing mad trivia and your voice and the laughter in it gave me the peace I needed in that moment on the brink of just sobbing. I just want you to know that you make a difference in so many ways, and probably don't even realize that you do. Like I said I don't make my work or stories public but I wanted you to know that you help and to say thank you. Full disclosure, I am a music slut so I surf all upper valley radio stations, but you are my only go to at 7AM.”

Dartmouth College Radio (WDCR)

While at the station, I served as GM (2022-2024) and Technical Director (2020-2022), and I worked with WDCR News as a broadcast journalist (2020-2022). Throughout my four years at WDCR, I also produced and hosted weekly, hour-long radio shows on topics ranging from technology policy to pop culture and comedy writing to theme songs and jingles, including:

Radio show album cover of two stick-figure-like doodles of fanged demons drawn in black and standing next to each other. One demon yells at the other like it is complaining about something. The fancy script beneath it reads, “inner demons,” the show title.
Radio show album cover of a starry night sky in the forest. Pink text reads “weird shhh o'clock.”
Radio show album cover of V's anguished face poorly photoshopped on the body of an old man in a green shirt and a Santa hat handing out jingle bells like a gift. The text beneath the photo reads, “we're jingling now.” against an inverted color scheme.
Radio show album cover of WDCR live studio with an inverted color scheme. The warm, orange lights and darkened screens are now pale cyans and bleachd whites. The show title, “Since No One Asked” is shown in large lettering on the right side of the cover.
Radio show album cover of a purple background containing a black and white photo of the Saturday Night Live writers' room. At the center of the table is a poorly photoshopped-in diagram of a pregnant woman's uterus with a fetus in it. The black and white text reads, “The Riters' WOOM”. The WOOM is curled in a fun yet offputting Word-art-style way.
Radio show album cover of notebook paper containing musical notes coming out of an image of the Earth from space. The text around the globe and musical notes reads, “Where Are We, Now?” A tear in the bottom right corner of the paper reveals a masked V standing on the Dartmouth Green on a sunny day. The white Baker Tower is behind them in the background. They shrug in question with their head turned up towards Earth.